| At 16, she quit high school to make her fortune in the Promised Land.
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| She gor a job behind the counter at all-night hamburger stand.
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| She wrote faithfully home to Mama, «Now mama, don’t you worry none.
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| From small things, Mama, big things one day come».
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| It was late one Friday, he pulled in out of the dark.
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| He was tall and handsome. |
| First she took his order, then she took his heart.
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| They bought a house up on a hillside where little feet would soon run.
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| From small things, Mama, big things one day come.
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| Oh, but luck was fleeting. |
| It’s sad but it’s true.
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| When your heart is bleeding, you don’t want to hear it abused.
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| She packed her bags and went to Wyoming with a real estate man.
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| She drove down to Tampa in an Eldorado Grand.
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| She wrote back, «Dear Mama, life is just heaven in the sun.
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| From small things, Mama, big things one day come.»
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| Well, she shot him dead on a sunny Florida road.
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| When they caught her, all she said was she couldn’t stand the way he drove.
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| Back home, lonesome Johnny waits for his baby’s parole.
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| He waits high on the hillside where the wide-open rivers roll.
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| At his feet and almost grown now, a blue-eyed daughter and a handsome son.
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| From small things, Mama, big things one day come.
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| From small things, Mama, big things one day come. |